1. New album has already reduced me to an emotional wreck on two or three occasions since it arrived on Friday. It’s fucking sublime. More people need to hear it; somewhere between drone, psych-folk, shoegaze, doom metal and post-rock, but nothing like any of those.
2. Barn Owl-related one-two. Fans of Earth NEED to hear this record. Bleached desert psych, low-end drone, spectral folk. The sounds he gets out of his guitar are astounding.
3. Wind’s Poem is really good; up there with my favourite Elverum releases.Wish I’d got the vinyl for the packaging now, though.
4. Imperial Distortion is surely one of the greatest ambient works of all time. Seriously excited to get my hands on a copy of the follow-up.
5. New album is really, really, really good. Something very comforting about their sound, makes me feel like a 16 year-old again. Their guitar tone on the record is gorgeous.
6. Autumn drone.
7. Desert drone.
11. Nice. Maybe not as good as The Wire made out, but interesting stuff.
12. New album is just too amazing for words. Passing Away has gatecrashed my top 20 tracks of all time. Spent the majority of my lunch breaks this week listening to it on loop and monging out.

Finally got a replacement turntable!111 So have mostly been listening to five records inc ZZ Top and the new Emeralds one which is quite immense. And some Death & Shogun Kunitoki. So basically this last.fm chart is awl wrong. King Khan ruled last night.

hrm. I've been out of the office and my iphone obviously hasn't polled at all. strange.
2. A sunny Day in Glasgow are going to shoot up the charts with their new album, i've not even listened to it all yet, never mind more than once.

1) Listening to Nevermind makes me feel like a teenager again.
3) Play is a great album, deal with it.
4b) The Point, strangely and lovably childish trippy folk odyssey.
8b) My opinion of them hasn't become more lenient over time.
8c) Listened to Kala while reading an interview with Public Enemy, which seemed quite appropriate.

1 - Celan is completely heavy, as what happens most times after i've looked up a band because i've seen they've played london recently i'm now gutted i didn't catch them. also a nice girl gave me a Celan notebook.
3 - yup new couple of releases coming up for talons', very excited.
4b - really been giving this a good play, all of tundra.
6a - still unsure, the guitars sound a bit wanky but i like the kind of torcheness
6b - see 1 in regards to gig wise, great album.
8 - considering how long NSB tracks this is a lot of playage, and doesn't count the plays of the new 3lp which is great.
9 - Feedbacker followed by Flood, = win
11 - New one sounds ace.
12c - One of my new favourite bands, Lapsed is wonderful.

1 and 2b) picked via up the Warp 20th anniversary 'two classic albums for £10' thing. I'm really enjoying Autechre especially at the moment, wasn't all that familiar with their stuff before getting Amber and Quaristice.

2a) pretty intersing, dark krautrock with psychedelic and even doom metal influences. Sounds really sparse, as you'd expect from them recording live with no overdubs. The downside of the really rapid writing and recording time is that the songs aren't all that memorable, it's sounds at times just like a series of recorded jams.

4) New album is awesome, like a super dense, slowed down remission era mastodon. You can download it for free from their website, and I really recommend that you all get it.

5) Saw them at the Invada Invasion, thought they were great, so got the album. They manage to get something fresh sounding out of fairly well worn ambient/shoegaze/post-metal influences, which is pretty impressive.

6) Got Andorra, which is really lovely. 'Melody Day', 'She's The One' and 'Niobe' especially. Like the Beach Boys fused with Aphex Twin via My Bloody Valentine. I've been meaning to check them out since seeing their set at Supersonic.

7) Got their new one, Psychic Maps. I like it a lot, it's surprisingly melodic and riff based for this sort of tech-metal, though I still need some more listens to unravel the thing.

8) Picked up Bitter River, their new one. Really nice, intricate neo-folk/neo-classical stuff. I need to listen to it more, but I can already recommend it to anybody who likes Jarboe's stuff (she in fact appears on one of the tracks).

9) Gloriously crushing, minimalist, industrial noise-metal from J. Broadrick and A. Turner. The textures are actually almost pleasant in places, and it's loaded with killer grooves. Great bass sound too.

1. Friggin ACE! I can't wait to see. him.
2. I like them because they make excellent J-Pop
4a Sweet Dreams is great, isn't it?
4b SOMEBODY CALL 911
4c Just shut up and watch me walk
7a WHEN YOU'RE CROWNED KING NOTHIIINNNNGGGG
10b I like Poppiholla wanna fight about it
10c RIVERSIDE MUTHAFUCKA

Pariah saw me chatting about his remix for The xx and sent me loads of dubs he's working on. Quality off-kilter garage kind of like a mixture of Burial and FLying Lotus... but completly diffrent. Loads of soulful samples and rolling drums.

1: Song of the Week: Apartment Story. God I love that track so much, why haven't I been listening to it?
2: Troublegum, Infernal Love. So much twisted goodness.
3: They're blatantly ELO for the NOW generation. Which is awesome.
5: Random band I haven't listened to in going on a decade #1. The theme from Chuck probably made me give 'em a spin.
6a: Spiderman of the Rings. Only 9 plays show on Last.fm but that's because Jupiter isn't alligned with Mars and my iPod won't scrobble. God knows what else is missing.
6b: Random band I haven't listened to in going on a decade #2. Pepper remains one of the best tunes ever.
8: Love, love, love. Let's have a new album, sunshine, less of these remix EPs that simply aren't in the same league.

1. Loving the new album
2 and 5. Standard listening for me at this time of year
3. RIYL The Cult and Echo and the Bunnymen, etc.
7. Vaguely spooky, shoegazey post punk. Check out the track 'Arms Length.'
10a and b. I've been trying to find more electronic based stuff. These are both good, but the latter is a bit more interesting.
13. Just got their first one after being impressed with this year's model. Way different obviously, but pretty damn good.